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JesusAmieiro writes:

Slack made a surprise announcement today that it’s acquired HipChat, once a primary competitor to its workplace chat service, from enterprise software giant Atlassian. As part of the partnership between Slack and Atlassian, HipChat will be shutting down and the two companies will work together to migrate all of its users over to Slack. The same goes for Stride, the chat and collaboration successor to HipChat that Atlassian launched last year. Atlassian clarified that Slack is only buying the intellectual property behind the two products, and that the two companies will be working on future integrations together.

takyon writes:

Slack is buying, and shutting down, HipChat and Stride

HipChat, the workplace chat app that held the throne before Slack was Slack, is being discontinued. Also being discontinued is Atlassian's own would-be HipChat replacement, Stride.

News of the discontinuation comes first not from Atlassian, but instead from a somewhat surprising source: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield. In a series of tweets, Butterfield says that Slack is purchasing the IP for both products to "better support those users who choose to migrate" to its platform.

Butterfield also notes that Atlassian will be making a "small but symbolically important investment" in Slack — likely a good move, given that rumors of a Slack IPO have been swirling (though Butterfield says it won't happen this year). Getting a pre-IPO investment into Slack might end up paying off for Atlassian better than trying to continue competing.

Slack announcement. Also at Bloomberg, Android Police, and Wired.

Related: Why I Hate Slack and You Should Too
Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion

Original Submission #1  Original Submission #2 

1. "JesusAmieiro" - https://www.barracoma.com/
2. "Slack made a surprise announcement today that it’s acquired HipChat" - https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/7/26/17619482/slack-hipchat-acquisition-stride-atlassian-partnership-microsoft-teams-competition?__twitter_impression=true
3. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
4. "Slack is buying, and shutting down, HipChat and Stride" - https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/26/atlassians-hipchat-and-stride-to-be-discontinued-with-slack-buying-up-the-ip/
5. "says it won't happen this year" - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/slack-passes-3-million-paid-users-but-wont-go-public-in-2018-ceo-says-2018-05-08
6. "Slack announcement" - https://slackhq.com/atlassian-and-slack-partnership
7. "Bloomberg" - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/slack-and-atlassian-team-up-to-take-on-microsoft-in-chat-software
8. "Android Police" - https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/07/26/slack-buys-hipchat-stride-atlassian-shut/
9. "Wired" - https://www.wired.com/story/the-office-messaging-wars-are-over-slack-has-won/
10. "Why I Hate Slack and You Should Too" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/07/09/0255227
11. "Slack Valued at Over $5 Billion" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/09/19/0139205
12. "Original Submission #1" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=28105
13. "Original Submission #2" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=28110

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